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TWiT 1086: The Great Beagle Migration - Pope Leo XIV's 1st Encyclical & Ferrari's 1st EV

Explore episode May 31, 2026
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The AI Political Money Machine: Crypto and AI Outspend Everyone

TWiT 1086: The Great Beagle Migration - Pope Leo XIV's 1st … · May 31, 2026 News

Andreessen Horowitz has become the single largest political donor in the current U.S. election cycle, outspending Big Oil, Big Pharma, and even Elon Musk. Molly White and Gary Rivlin explain that crypto and AI companies are running identical playbooks: dump hundreds of millions into politics, write your own regulation, and crush competitors with compliance costs.

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Leo Laporte opens the Zscaler segment by cataloguing the security threats that AI has amplified: AI-generated phishing lures indistinguishable from real communications, AI-assisted malicious code writing, AI-accelerated data exfiltration, and employees unwittingly uploading sensitive company information to public AI models — including 1.3 million Social Security numbers leaked to AI apps last year. Zscaler's Zero Trust architecture removes attack surfaces by default while its AI layer monitors how employees use generative AI tools, preventing sensitive data from reaching public LLMs. A testimonial from Siva, Director of Security and Infrastructure at Zwoora, explains how Zscaler ZIA gives visibility into employee AI tool usage and enforces data classification policies. The call to action is zscaler.com/security.

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